About Us

The Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse is a joint venture of the International Reading Association and National Council of Teachers of English.

More specifically, the goals of the Clearinghouse are:

To increase the knowledge base, research, and practice of literacy coaches, reading coaches, reading specialists, and instructional coaches as they engage teachers in coaching as a form of professional learning

To collect and monitor the research on literacy coaching

To assist district administrators, school principals, literacy coaches, reading coaches, reading specialists, and instructional coaches in their development of quality coaching programs based upon findings from research and coaches’ own practices

To assist IRA and NCTE in development of policy on literacy coaching and to promote these understandings through briefs, forums, and presentations both within the organizations and to external audiences

To encourages coaches, teachers, principals, administrators, policymakers, and others to seek IRA and NCTE membership, publications, conferences, consultants, and professional development offerings

To exemplify how IRA and NCTE can work together on projects of mutual interest and benefit to both professional organizations